Think. Refrain. Steadfast. Fair
2 ears. 1 mouth, concisely brief.
Goodness over greatness.
Attainment over obtainment
If you haven’t found your people or your place, you just haven’t moved far enough yet (or at least not in the right direction)
Don’t let age stiffen you and never mistake rigidity for strength. The youngest branches on the tree are the least likely to snap, because they are the most flexible.
We are assailed – without invitation or warning – by thoughts and desires throughout the day, but their persistence doesn’t diminish our freedom to inspect each for what it is and more often what it pretends to be.
Your thoughts and actions are all that you possess. Nothing else is really yours, it is all on loan from the universe and can be taken from you without a moment’s notice.
If you can’t endure it, you are doing it wrong. Attainment over obtainment. That which you attain can never be taken from you, but you must be prepared for fate to take back whatever you have obtained. Any time. Any place. Poof, gone. Don’t be unprepared.
Leonard Cohen said that there is a crack in everything, and [optimistically] that is how the light gets in. It is also how the cold gets in. And the vermin. And the dirt. And the bugs. Patch the cracks and learn to light yourself from within.
The world isn’t filled with geniuses and you aren’t one, either. Didn’t hold others in unnecessarily low esteem or yourself in unjustifiably high esteem.
Everyone is going through life sucking at some things, if not most things.
Goodness is a vector. Direction is most important, but the amount of force and energy that you exert is of great consequence.
Courage: action in the direction of painful goodness.
On “Crushing it”:
- I’m not sure that I know what it means to ‘crush it’, which probably means I’ve not done it. I’ve certainly never done something so well that I felt unstoppable in any way or that the momentum of my success would somehow carry me forward.
- I’ve read that it feels like the whole world is rooting for you when you are crushing it. I can’t remember ever feeling that way. Even when I felt like I was the undoubtedly amazing, I still thought the world was against me and I was just spiting it.
- I wish I could crush it. Especially where is matters most.
- So people feel like they are crushing it when they are on a winning streak? What would a winning streak even look like for me?
- Perhaps I’ve got on blinders, because I struggle to think of any such triumphs at all.
- Do I downplay my successes? What successes? Maybe the questions are answering themselves.